Vampire Tapestry
Edward Weyland is far from your average vampire: not only is he a respected anthropology professor but his condition is biological — rather than supernatural. He lives discrete lifetimes bounded by decades of hibernation and steals blood from labs rather than committing murder. Weyland is a monster who must form an uneasy empathy with his prey in order to survive, and The Vampire Tapestry is a story wholly unlike any you've heard before.\ \ \ An account of the perilous...
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Now in Orb, the vampire book Stephen King called “Scary, entertaining, suspenseful.… unputdownable”Don D'amassaone of the most original and highly regarded vampire novels of all time . Although there have been numerous attempts to write stories from the vampire's point of view in recent years, most notably by Anne Rice, none rival The Vampire Tapestry's straightforward, intelligent treatment.
Part I: The Ancient Mind At Work Part II: The Land of Lost Content Part III: Unicorn Tapestry Part IV: A Musical Interlude Part V: The Last of Dr. Weyland
\ Don D'amassa… one of the most original and highly regarded vampire novels of all time…. Although there have been numerous attempts to write stories from the vampire's point of view in recent years, most notably by Anne Rice, none rival The Vampire Tapestry's straightforward, intelligent treatment.\ \ \ \ \ Fantasy ReviewThe Vampire Tapestry seems as fresh and arresting as it was at the time of its first publication, and it remains the most original addition to the field since Richard Matheson's I Am Legend (1954).\ \ \ Gale ResearchSuzy McKee Charnas is, according to Don D'Ammassa in the St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost and Gothic Writers, "the author of one of the most original and highly regarded vampire novels of all time," The Vampire Tapestry. The Vampire Tapestry is the story of dream researcher and vampire Dr. Edward Weyland. D'Ammassa finds: "Although there have been numerous attempts to write stories from the vampire's point of view in recent years, most notably by Anne Rice, none rival The Vampire Tapestry's straightforward, intelligent treatment."\ \ \ \ \ Library JournalA complex and disturbing tale with a vampire as thoroughly believable as the one in Anne Rice's INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE.\ \ \ \ \ Marge PierceyOn one level Charnas has created a marvelous and compelling page turner of a what-if tale, about a believable and wholly natural vampire. She has asked, what would a successful predator of the human herd be like physically and mentally? On another level she takes a cool fascinating look at prey-predator relations as a focus for what goes on between men and women, between those with power and those without, between the outlaw and the society that at once feeds and hunts him. She has stripped the vampire tale of its Gothic and sado-masochistic elements. As her clever and ironic vampire remarks, it does not do to confuse sex and feeding, and Charnas never does, in a book that is witty and frightening at once.\ \ \ \ \ New York Times Book ReviewAmong the genre's few modern classics.\ \ \ \ \ Oxford Times…probably the best vampire novel ever written…\ \ \ \ \ USA TodayThe big news in horror fiction this Halloween season is that superstar shockmeisters Stephen King and Anne Rice have weighed in with imposing-looking new tomes…. Aficionados looking elsewhere for salutary scares might try Phil Rickman's dazzling CURFEW or Shepard's THE GOLDEN…. Or they might note the welcome reissue of a consensus classic, so recognized when first published in 1980, but since virtually forgotten: THE VAMPIRE TAPESTRY, by Suzy McKee Charnas... It's a fascinating conception, handled with masterly skill. Charnas' characters are boldly drawn and memorably complex, her prose is alive with energy and wit, her narrative inventions ingenious and atmospheric. Nothing better has been done in this, er, vein since Bram Stoker's legendary DRACULA in 1897. And, as a pure piece of writing, Charnas' deeply intelligent, disturbing novel may actually be the superior book.\ \ \ \ \ Washington PostDon't let the title fool you. This is not another weary novel about Dracula, his imitators, or his heirs. THE VAMPIRE TAPESTRY works on many levels, as pure adventure, as social description, as psychological drama, and as a passionate exploration of the web that links instinct, morality, and culture . . . a serious, startling, revolutionary work.\ \
